Sunday, 25 May 2014

Welcome back to Sexy Snippets. This weekly meme is hosted by The Nuthouse Scribblers where
we share seven sentences from a published book or work-in-progress. If
you're a writer, feel free to join us by signing up at the Sexy Snippets page. Sign up opens every Tuesday and closes midnight every Saturday (UK time).

If you read my Mid-Week Tease, you'll know I'm writing again. Scores, to be precise. If you read the teaser, you'll also know it ended in a cliff-hanger of sorts. Well, I thought I'd share the next 7 sentences from the WIP. If you haven't read the MWT, you might want to read it to understand the context here. This is a first draft and unedited.

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A test of trust this had to be. To stand still and not look back
when all her instincts screamed at her to find out what was going on behind her.

Monday, 19 May 2014

I'm delighted to have the lovely Sharon C. Cooper on my blog today with her latest book. Please make her feel welcome.

Description

Hospital
Chief of Staff Natasha Lockham’s life has been all about work and no play. That
is until a one-night stand with a man who lives his life on the edge, turns her
sexual fantasies into reality. She never expects to see him again, but their
paths cross when Natasha suspects an esteemed doctor of committing an
unspeakable crime against his patients and danger lands at her doorstep. The
closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes she’s not prepared for the
truth – or the consequences.

Former
Navy SEAL, Malik Lewis, will always remember the night he spent with Natasha.
It was the single most amazing night of his life. So when Natasha narrowly
escapes a brutal attempt on her life, Malik stops at nothing to protect her,
including hunting a man whose skills match his. Can Malik and Natasha outsmart
a vicious assassin who has nothing to lose? And will they ever get to explore
the sizzling passion between them that neither can deny?

Thursday, 15 May 2014

Today, I welcome author Chelle Ramsey as she introduces her latest book, Bejeweled. Stop by and say hello.

About the Book

THE HOUSE OF BEJEWELED– the place all divas go in the ATL for the
hottest hair styles and even hotter gossip.

OLIVIA – the owner of The House of BeJeweled hair and nail salon faces
the challenge of inspiring the clientele while helping her team of talented
stylists pick up the pieces of their broken lives. Paired with their constant
drama, she must now fight to keep her heart protected from the one man who has
always laid claim to it.

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Welcome back to Mid-Week Tease hosted by the fabulous Sandra Bunino where writers share excerpts from published works or works-in-progress.

This week, I'm sharing one last teaser from Keeping Secrets. It'll be that last teaser from this book for a while as I return to writing a new story. The final instalment of Benjamin and Selina's story is screaming to be finished. You'll get a teaser from that next week over at the Passion Shields blog.

In the meantime, I'll leave you with a little from Felix and Ebony in Keeping Secrets. I think the scene describes itself. I hope you enjoy it.

Ebony
walked out of the en-suite bathroom and stopped. Felix sat on the bed, taking
his shirt off. At the sight of the broad shoulders, taut pectorals, and
rippling bicep muscles, her breath caught in her throat and a warm shiver crept
up her back. Fascinated, she stared at him with undisguised hunger, lips
parted, body flushed.

He
tossed the shirt aside and their gazes met. His cheek dipped with a dimple, his
smile oh-so-sexy.

Lava
pooled low in her belly. She swiped clammy hands over the silk negligee
covering her thighs.

What
was the matter with her? Felix had been injured, sex probably the last thing on
his mind. She needed to concentrate on making him comfortable.

“Can
I help you with something?” she asked, keeping her tone jovial. But her face
heated up when his lips curled in a wicked grin.

“Sure,
you can. Come here.” His deep, husky voice sent her heart racing with
anticipation. Her awareness of him racked up to scorching level.

Legs
trembling a little, she walked over to him and stopped at arm’s length. Desire
filled his eyes, turning them into fiery onyx. An ache settled in her core, a
need for him to kiss her again, to feel his hands setting her skin ablaze. She
wanted to taste him, to touch him. Yet, she hesitated.

“What
would you like me to do?” she asked, not sure if he wanted help with his
trousers, unable to keep her eyes away from his stomach muscles tapering into
them. She tried to keep her thoughts on what needed to be done. The loose-fitting
cargo pants were probably the only things he could wear with the plaster cast
on his ankle. With zippers at the sides and on the hems, it could come off
easily

“Come
closer,” he demanded in a low, growling voice.

Blurb

Have
you ever loved someone and didn’t even know it?

That’s
the dilemma facing Felix Essien when he wakes from a coma to find he is married
to the most beautiful and sensual woman he’s ever known. He cannot remember her
or their wedding; he who had sworn never to get married or to give his heart to
another. Yet, he feels an intense bond with her that he intends to explore
fully.

Ebony
can’t believe her good fortune when her paper husband wakes not remembering the
temporary marriage arrangement with no intimacies he’d proposed, and is now the
adoring husband she’s always dreamt of.

She
plans to make the most of the passion blossoming between them. However, would
he still feel that way when he regains his memory and realises she’s been
keeping secrets and their marriage is not what he thinks it is?

Sunday, 11 May 2014

Welcome back to Sexy Snippets. This weekly meme is hosted by The Nuthouse Scribblers where
we share seven sentences from a published book or work-in-progress. If
you're a writer, feel free to join us by signing up at the Sexy Snippets page. Sign up opens every Tuesday and closes midnight every Saturday (UK time).

It is with sadness that I announce that the Blood Bar Chronicles - The Enforcers anthology will be going out of print in a few weeks. If you haven't read this anthology yet, the next few days will be your last opportunity to read all the stories together.

So this week I bring you a sexy snippet from my paranormal story in the anthology, Unbound.

"When
your soul was in limbo, I waited." A shadow crossed his eyes as the
anguish of the long wait for her soul to reincarnate returned. He had served
out the sentence with her. It was torture to be eternally bonded and be apart.
While she couldn't sense him, he sensed her and her pain. And lived it every
day. "When you were born into the human body all I could do was watch you
from a distance. I wasn't allowed to contact you, just watch over you, and keep
you safe."

She
must have seen the torment in his eyes because she moved closer to him and
hugged him tightly, squeezing his body affectionately, her head tucked in his
shoulders. He was taken aback. However, he held onto her, grateful for the
contact quelling his disquiet.

Blurb:

The Blood Bar Chronicles Book 3, The
Enforcers

When the
Wicked Ladies of Fiction meet up in a Scottish bar they don't expect a night
filled with danger, lust and hot supernatural men...

Unbound by Kiru Taye

HE WILL DAMN
HIS SOUL TO SET HERS FREE...

When
workaholic high-flying career lawyer Tara Woji meets up with old friends at the
blood bar in Edinburgh, she doesn't realise the danger lurking in the shadows
for her. M'na is a chi, a gatekeeper whose duty is to protect the humans. Tara
is his assignment. As the shadows deepen and darkness comes to claim her, he
will do whatever it takes to protect her including doing the one thing that
releases her powers—unbinding her heart.